ENVIRONMENT

U.S. to Seek Stay of Tuna Embargo Order: The Bush Administration will ask an appeals court to block a federal judge’s order requiring the United States to broaden its embargo of foreign tuna, a government spokesman said. Chief U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson on Monday ordered a ban on tuna imports from any nation that buys tuna from Mexico or Venezuela that was caught by methods that also kill dolphins. Dolphins swim above yellow fin tuna in the eastern Pacific and are targeted by some commercial tuna fleets. Mexico and Venezuela have been subject to a court-ordered U.S. embargo since August, 1990, because their tuna fleets kill dolphins at a rate above the level set by U.S. law.